BACKGROUND Due to various options for tissue resection and preoperative markings, many different reports on aesthetics and patient’s satisfaction exist. To assess differences among tissue resections and risk factors, we herein analyzed satisfaction levels of patients that underwent upper blepharoplasty. METHODS A retrospective analysis during the period from January 2006 to June 2013 w...

After the collapse of the housing bubble in 2007, severe fire sales of assets in the financial sector are accompanied by a rise in the volatility of asset returns in the non-financial firms. To account for their co-movements, I develop a model that highlights the interaction between the financial health of the banking sector and the volatility of asset returns. The novel feature of the model is...

Given the immense variety of compounds being developed for introduction into the human environment, reliable medium term alternatives to traditional long term rodent test protocols for carcinogen risk assessment are a high priority. In vivo models are necessary because it has been well established that there is a lack of complete correlation between mutagenicity and carcinogenicity . Optimally,...

Inverting the Laplace transform is a paradigm for exponentially ill-posed problems. For a class of operators, including the Laplace transform, we give forward and inverse formulae that have fast implementations using the fast Fourier transform. These formulae lead easily to regularized inverses whose effects on noise and filtered data can be precisely described. Our results give cogent reasons ...

Different statistical methods for the assessment of potential risk factors are discussed, in the case of a complex neurophysiological system, involving binary observations. The first approach describes the use of non-parametric methods, which are based on the cross-product ratio (CPR). The estimates of the CPR are given both in time and frequency domains and their asymptotic distributions are d...